Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource DevelopmentInformal learning has become an extremely important issue as post-industrial workplaces seek to harness its productive potential. Managers and HRD practitioners have attempted to deploy informal learning in the design of corporate cultures, however, most discussions of the subject have tended to be uncritical expositions which do not challenge the underlying economic, philosophical and organisational rationale. Uniquely, this book goes against this tendency. It critically examines definitions of informal learning, and focuses on its application in a variety of workplace contexts. It features: * theories of informal learning Incorporating case studies based on interviews with practising managers and HRM practitioners, and a detailed glossary of key concepts and issues, this book will be a valuable reference for students of workplace learning. |
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Some prevalent definitions of informal learning There is a silence about the
power of discourse to delineate the sayable about informal learning. In writing
about 'it' I highlight those features ofthe subject that are constructed by the
circulating ...
The way one talks about informal learning begins to construct what it becomes.
The way Bagnall talks about it suggests informal learning is 'obtained
unconsciously, existentially; through the mere experience of living in a particular
...
(Wain 1987: 51) Here the formal and non-formal focus is on institutional
structures, whilst the focus of the informal is on the learner. Wain's separation of
informal from 'formal' and 'non-formal' is problematic. 'Informal' learning may
occur in ...
This is in part why Wain distinguishes informal learning from formal and non-
formal learning on the basis that it is unintended by the learner, asserting that: it
is easily demonstrable that people pick up attitudes, values, skills, and
knowledge by ...
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| 1 | |
2 Theorising informal learning | 15 |
Unmasking the language of HRD | 38 |
4 The hidden curriculum of learning at work | 60 |
5 Professional identity and selfregulation at work | 81 |
6 The performativity principle in informal learning | 101 |
7 Retheorising informal workplace learning | 124 |
Postscript | 151 |
The research methods | 161 |
Glossary | 169 |
Bibliography | 182 |
Index | 199 |
Iné vydania - Zobraziť všetky
Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource Development John Garrick Obmedzený náhľad - 2012 |
Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource Development John Garrick Obmedzený náhľad - 1998 |
Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource Development John Garrick Obmedzený náhľad - 1998 |
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Bibliografické informácie
| Názov | Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource Development |
| Autor | John Garrick |
| Vydanie | ilustrované |
| Vydavateľ | Routledge, 2012 |
| Kód ISBN | 1134667205, 9781134667208 |
| Dĺžka | 224 strán (strany) |
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